Black Belt Poker -

Ciaran (HesGot2Aces) Cole posted on 3 Feb, 10:32pm

Won my homegame tonight....and it finished earlier than usual, simply down to my running good and some ill timed bluffs from my mates.....so online on a friday night for the first in a long time, feeling lucky, entered $10 2.5k F/O......only to run my JJ into AA after the flop on a low rainbow board.....does run good offline translate into run good online for anyone?

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 4 Feb, 8:59am

varience is all relative on off or online

tristan (tristiano) chaplin posted on 2 Feb, 3:57pm

just arrived at birmingham 4 the genting poker series playing the 100 side 2nite and the main day1b 2morrow lets do this ........ ps gl bruce jones and have a feeling snoopy maybe there as well gl gl.....

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tom(habbad) thompson posted on 3 Feb, 9:13pm

Tristan up to 44000.

Snoopy 79000

tristan (tristiano) chaplin posted on 4 Feb, 2:38am

ok guys updates chip average ( day1 b ) 68k snoops on 87k bruce 81k and myself on 73k hoping 4 a very deep run from 1 or more of us gl guys:))))))

simon (ourkidsid) herrick posted on 4 Feb, 7:57am

great work all, the coverage on this is really good too...............glglglglglglglglgl

Jon "Ourkid888" Laight posted on 4 Feb, 4:26am

Well it's stupid o'clock and after the initial disappointment of the cancelled side event at star city I'm just about to start the FT of the Broadway mega stack. 150+ runners and I think I'm chip leader. Playing solid, loving it but my mrs is gonna slaughter me.

PMA all the way, 10 time please dealer......

simon (ourkidsid) herrick posted on 4 Feb, 7:55am

nice one gl, ££££ will always sweeten up the mrs

Peter Fairbairn posted on 4 Jan, 9:31am

Right....so here it is, New Year, busy at work, 6month old baby girl (ahhh). Seems to be the perfect time to step up my poker!! I joined BBP about a month ago, following my mate JP, by taking some money out of another site that was really starting to hack me off. No names, but WE ARE not impressed anymore.
I've been playing for a few years, but never really concentrating or learning unitl the last few months, so i have a simple plan....
Starting with £83.24, how fast can i double my bank roll...CAN i double my bank roll...can i even play enough to get to and maintain Orange Belt...
If you have nothing better to do, then watch this paint dry, i mean, WATCH THIS SPACE!!

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Neil Channing posted on 29 Jan, 12:27pm

How's the quest for Orange going Peter? Just a couple more days to get it done this month, but like the guys said it shouldn't be too hard.

Got to get to Orange to get a chance at the Grab a Grand.

Peter Fairbairn posted on 2 Feb, 9:03pm

Thanks JP, although a couple of bad games has seen me slip back a fedw quid from starting. Finding the time to play is tricky at the moment, doing enough to improve my game and advance to Orange Belt is quite another....i did say that post Xmas with a 6month old was great timing to start lol

Peter Fairbairn posted on 3 Feb, 11:20pm

Got to say JP, it's not bad so far....just won 3 of 4 $2 super turbo double thrus....

Sean (10Royals) Lassman posted on 3 Feb, 10:24pm

Calling all orangebelts and higher.......not sure if anyone has notices but 5 wensdays this month,meaning 5 freerolls.....

When you click on the Black belt tournaments tab when logged onto the skin its only showing 8th,22nd and 29th.......so see the other one click on the freeroll tab and it shows up......Called Black Belt Live Freeroll (15th Feb) and only showing 4 reg.......roll up and register before anyone misses out or complains they can not find it ......

nick(sprinterz) spiers posted on 3 Feb, 10:31pm

Cheers Sean

Chris Osborne posted on 3 Feb, 10:38pm

ty sean

Sean (10Royals) Lassman posted on 3 Feb, 10:44pm

I take a cut of any winnings at black belt live from the winner of this comp

Sean (10Royals) Lassman posted on 1 Feb, 8:21pm

Ok, so I managed to maintain orange with a bit of a push to make 270 points in 4or5 day and this left me with a micro roll of $10.69 from $150 deposits since friday 27th January 2012.

So this month i am going to grind out low level plo8 tables up to $0.10/$0.20 until I get my microroll up to $50-$75......I hope this helps me go back to basics and learn the game over again....

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Chris Osborne posted on 2 Feb, 11:24pm

Sean don't worry about your results or the rake just play and the rest will look after itself. One thing I should of added was that regardless of whether your bankrolled for a higher game, if your not beating the current level your playing there is no point moving up as you'll get crushed.

Geoff Douglas posted on 2 Feb, 11:31pm

Chris is right - forget the points totally - it takes over your thinking
Also, just as a rule - bankroll is 50 full buy ins at a level, minimum, so if the maximum table buy in is $10.00 (e.g. 5c/10c level) then you should have a roll of $500.00 miminum. If you are below this then keep to lower stakes.
If you stick to this rule, and play good (even ABC) poker you should find variance does not have too big an impact.
Now if only I could follow my own advice!!!

Sean (10Royals) Lassman posted on 3 Feb, 10:43pm

3rd evening done for the month and 1 more hour and 74 hands later up $6.41 and rake of $3.04.....It was one of those session down down down down and then got it in bad holding 5K29(two hearts) against christy2204(who i think is christie ellis) but i might be wrong 4JQA(two spades) and another person 6357(two diamonds) .......flop comes Q43(two hearts) turn is 3 and river is A(hearts) to complete me flush and wheel for $28.45 pot ........

Thanks for the advice on the bankroll info .....just never been a person to stick to one level for a long time guess this is why i am bust all the time

At least my miniroll is moving the correct way at the moment $10.69 to $28.45 (in three sessions - 436 hands)

Dean(LAYERCAKE35) Watson posted on 3 Feb, 10:09pm

Ok , here is a topic for your views and thoughts. (May have been done before).

How do you act in a rebuy/addon tournament?

Do you -
1. Rebuy straight away and start with a deep stack.
2. Wait a few levels , to try and get a read on your table and then maybe rebuy for your stack to coincide with average stack.
3. Play LAG or even TAG to get that early double up that you dont need the rebuy.
4. Not to rebuy at all , and to get to the addon.

Your views and thoughts please.

Chris Osborne posted on 3 Feb, 10:12pm

I take a rebuy straight away and then will look to just take the add on. Its rare I will take an additional rebuy but dont discount it altogether depends on the table I am on etc

nick(sprinterz) spiers posted on 3 Feb, 10:32pm

Take the rebuy str98 away and not rebuy again unless i get unlucky on an easy table.

dawn (bagpuss rocks) cooke posted on 3 Feb, 6:25pm

with the dojo being moved from monday to thursday next week i am going to have to pass - hopefully someone else can have my place :)

Bob (myteamouse) Bulman posted on 3 Feb, 8:27pm

suits me.
I'll try & take your place.
Tx Dawn.

Sam Macdonald posted on 3 Feb, 5:40pm

Hi,

Looking to sell up to 60% of the €4950 WPT Venice Main Event starting next week at 1.2.

Therefore every 1% is €63.60

Players start with 30,000 in chips with levels 90mins long. Obviously a really good structure and also with aggressive antes kicking in relatively early I am confident in my ability to accumulate and do well in these sort of tournaments.

Below are links to my results:

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=188739

My online screenames are:
Pokerstars - sam11788
Full Tilt - ipayy0urbill5
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Payment by bank xfer or site xfer. Please pm me on here on facebook for details.

I will try to be providing updates throughout the comp via twitter (@sammy_mac88) for those interested.

Sam Macdonald

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Patrick (Course00) Scott posted on 3 Feb, 7:29pm

Therefore every 1% is €63.60

I'll take 000000000.35556776555% ty sir

Sam Macdonald posted on 3 Feb, 7:39pm

I thought I still was Orange Belt!!

And sigh at getting the cost of % wrong. 1% is in fact €59.40.

Have 39% left

Patrick (Course00) Scott posted on 3 Feb, 7:53pm

you're bleached orange

super exclusive

gl

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 3 Feb, 4:16pm

Im currently running well @HU cash and wanting to re-read the Sam Razzavi heads up specialist piece from a couple of months ago but I cant find it.
is it uder blogs or articles, any ideas guyz thanx in advance.

P.S. if anyone fancies a HU match im waiting on a 10p/20p table.
Just search brunson888jnr

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Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 3 Feb, 4:54pm

Found the article. Written 08 September 2011, how time flies

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 3 Feb, 5:19pm

Found the article. Written 08 September 2011, how time flies

Dean(LAYERCAKE35) Watson posted on 3 Feb, 6:32pm

Good Luck in your quest at being the next Sam Razavi , Wez.

dawn (bagpuss rocks) cooke posted at 6:25pm

with the dojo being moved from monday to thursday next week i am going to have to pass - hopefully someone else can have my place :)

Barry (JosseWales) Styles posted at 6:00pm

Going to the dogs Friday ~ ( '',)
T1 Roscos Flyer
8 18 Romford
will be short priced fav , best price with WH @ 6/4

Gareth Warke posted on 30 Dec, 1:06am

A sure thing??

I'll start with a disclaimer that I'm no expert tipster. I'll give you the scoop with some detail so you can make your mind up yourself.

Cliffs - Indianapolis Colts TO LOSE to the Jacksonville Jags
http://www.oddschecker.com/american-football/nfl/indianapolis-colts-at-jacksonville-jaguars/winner

If you follow the NFL then you've probs already lumped it on this one. If not...... essentially this is not a game the Colts can afford to win. The worse team at the end of the NFL season gets the first pick in the up coming NFL Draft. This years Draft will has a once in a generation player named Andrew Luck who plays QB.

As it stands the colts are on course to be the worse team and take the numer 1 draft pick. However if they win their last game of the season against the Jags and the Rams lose Rams take number 1 pick.

They lose they get dibs on a young once in a generation superstar who will be central to the team for years to come (just like they did 98 draft when they picked up the current 35yr injured QB Manning)

Granted the odds arent great for this one. 1/2 off levels for the Jags to win but this really is a game the Colts can't afford to win. Game plays out this sunday.

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Richard Dally posted on 3 Feb, 12:48pm

Bodog's US Site has a whole host of novelty bets - including will Madonna be wearing fishnet stockings during the half-time show :)

Ryan Williams posted on 3 Feb, 3:54pm

as always, thanks neil. lumped on the -2.5

Barry (JosseWales) Styles posted on 3 Feb, 5:16pm

I think i'm going for NY in a low scoring game (according to Neil's theorem betting by numbers ) ~
It seems every man and his dog think the Patriots will win big time but i'm going on the fact that NY have the best defence and will win a close low score game under 16 - 20 NY ~ ( '',)

However I know about as much as Dawn (bagpuss) so i'll wait and see what Neil thinks :))

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 3 Feb, 2:27am

im on edge of my seat awaiting for announcement of next BBP live, as indicated, today... will stay up, drink copius amounts of coffee, pitch a tent, que like an old biddy waiting for cliff richards concert tickets & hold my breath til then.... #lookingforwardtoitalready wherever it is, i just know the shenanigans will be off the scale! im sure we can incorporate some degenical format where we get messrs edler and razavi drunk enough to come dressed as a panto dames!

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 3 Feb, 12:39pm

Can i breathe yet?

chris(SchnauzerSoze) cope posted on 3 Feb, 3:33pm

ooohh im hoping its nottingham!!!

Kevin (S0lution) Birt posted on 3 Feb, 4:56pm

I am so close to the egde of my seat I could fall off at any pppppppplca,mvk jgn............6

Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 3 Feb, 1:08pm

Given my goal to retain my Orange belt this month I've got a general question about the Community points.

Who determines if posts are constructive and how are they logged? Also if you do meet the qualification when do the points get awarded to your account?

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nick(sprinterz) spiers posted on 3 Feb, 2:24pm

This means you can't get to the last day of the month with 450 points and expect your community points to allow you to keep orange, you start the month with 50 community points if you were orange the previous month.

Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 3 Feb, 2:41pm

Thanks Nick that's good advice to know for my planning on maintain Orange this month, just means I need to work a little more on the number of games I need to play

nick(sprinterz) spiers posted on 3 Feb, 4:49pm

The little zen box is a pointer to how committed you are to the community, the more constructive posts you make the higher your colour becomes.
There does not seem to be a guideline to how the colour of the box is achieved but it seems to be that if you are active then the box colour will get better.
Better for your belt to be a higher colour than your box. lol

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted at 4:23pm

Wheres the result for last nights No lose Yellowbelt Deepstack Sen Sei?

James (JimmyTheBhoy) Carrigan posted on 3 Feb, 3:11pm

when the next BBP Live date/venue is revealed, do you know if they will be satellites to the event be setup beforehand.

I know there is a OBF for it sometime this month, but was wondering if there are going to other opportunites for the community to qualify

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 3 Feb, 3:39pm

Im possitive there will be many sattys running prior to the event as usual, this is how I intend to gain my seat. :)

Barry (JosseWales) Styles posted on 3 Feb, 3:51pm

There's nearly always satellites to these events James

should imagine so again ~

Richard Ashby posted on 3 Feb, 1:50pm

Seems like the poker party has left town here in Melbourne. We were playing 200/400 10k cap PLO last night but the game didn't get up tonight. Patrik Antoniuis had been paying and winning as well as Jeff Lissandro and a bunch of young Aussies. Im going to get my head down and try improve my game for Vegas in June. Hope to see some you at the next blackbelt live. Good luck all.

Barry (JosseWales) Styles posted on 3 Feb, 3:31pm

glk, and get some sunshine ~ were basking in it here !

( '',)

- 11c at night near your home town !

Wez(Brunson888jnr) # posted on 3 Feb, 3:36pm

Cheers Mr Ashby. I hope you had enough time to realy enjoy yourself out there.

Jon "Ourkid888" Laight posted on 3 Feb, 11:05am

Howdy all,

Meeting up with Tristan and Bruce tonight at the Genting Poker event in Brum. I am playing in the 100+9 event and have a v small staking opportunity. I have already sold 40% and have a 10% block left (selling at 1.0) for £10. Any takers??

Jon "Ourkid888" Laight posted on 3 Feb, 3:33pm

All gone!!

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 2 Feb, 3:23pm

i think the guys at http://www.maineventtravel.com have got s good thing going on here for all poker players, there are for every forthcoming event and available hotel bookings etc

best page is http://www.maineventtravel.com/events/ where it lists the whole lot!!! who needs a diary anymore? just look here! i understand that the events will fill up and be even bigger soon as further UKIPT dates are imminent and the WSOP schedule was only released yesterday, plus not every poker tourny organiser has seen the value in this yet as it seems to be a bit of a master-list of the best events, the hendon mob do this also http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=l

but MET are well worth a look and please like thier fb page as they are doing really good value giveaways!

also hope to see a BBP live on the Main event travel events page very soon!

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stephen (eixip50) andrews posted on 3 Feb, 12:29pm

Have to go with Paul on this, no real value for the single room at the minute, but its new so i am sure they will make adjustments

russ (nicenutter) cochran posted on 3 Feb, 12:37pm

Value is in the trust guys i cant see them shoving you in a dodgy hotel and um sure you may have Had few of them before! + its less to worry about

stephen (eixip50) andrews posted on 3 Feb, 12:53pm

Yea Russ agree on that, but using my normal booking site.. i can get deepstack Dublin next week cheaper and not just a bit cheaper at the same place they have. I think its a great idea and they have to make a profit.

Sen Sei posted on 29 Sep, 10:53am

For those who aren't already aware, Black Belt Poker host a League every Tuesday at 8.30pm. The League is a $5+0.50 No Limit Hold'em freezeout and is run over eight legs with the overall winner/s receiving a star prize. Other members of the top 10 earn Belt Points.

If you would like to participate, then simply locate the tournament under 'Scheduled' > 'Black Belt Tournaments' and select register. You can also purchased a token for the event in the Black Belt Poker Store using Spending Points, or, if you are Orange or Purple Belt, earn free entry via the monthly Season Ticket Giveaway Freeroll.

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Sen Sei posted on 26 Jan, 12:58pm

Congratulations to Anthony 'BoraBoraBoy' Giuntini (the Gorilla at Notts Live) for taking down Tuesday's League leg. He jumps to second, just two points behind current leader Allan 'AlRawling' Rawling:

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/League-XIII-BoraBoraBoy

Sen Sei posted on 3 Feb, 1:02am

Congratulations to Mike 'sceaga2' Shaw for yet another League win. He takes down Leg 4, but it's a familiar face who leads the standings: League I Champion Adam 'JHobbit1' Saunders:

http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/League-XIII-sceaga2

Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 3 Feb, 9:10am

Yep congratulations Mike great turnaround in fortunes from the week before!!

Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 23 Jan, 5:10pm

Looking for advice/help from the great BBP community on how to generate belt points to maintain Orange belt. What level at the cash tables should I be looking to play?

I've been trying two tables at micro stakes which doesn't seem to generate much, so trying to figure out what would be an optimum level to play and what period of time it will take so I can work out hrs/day I would need to be playing at.

If there are any articles or blogs that I can refer to can you please let me have the links?

Already planning on playing all the league games to secure the added value 200 points which will be a big help, but any advice welcomed.

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Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 24 Jan, 4:49pm

Thanks for the continued comments I'm sure it will all help me to determine levels of play and hours per week I will need to commit to maintain Orange belt this time round :)

Neil Channing posted on 3 Feb, 2:15am

Looks like you made it Jon, hopefully it wasn't too much of a struggle. Hopefully you'll be qualifying for "Grab a Grand".

For anyone who hasn't maintained there is always this month to start your run of three months of Orange and above to qualify for the second Grab a Grand.

Jon (RykanShadow) White posted on 3 Feb, 9:08am

Thanks Neil I will be aiming to hold onto the orange belt this time round, think I have a plan now to achieve that so let's see how Feb works out :)

adrian (adygolf) harris posted on 3 Feb, 8:10am

oh ! What a disaster ! Just as I got to orange, I the clumsy oaf ! Knock my laptop off the coffee table and now got a broken laptop !! Ooo ! God wish I had not Qualified for orange this month.... Sob sob could be weeks before I get back online but I'll try and repair it but not holding much hope !

adrian (adygolf) harris posted on 3 Feb, 8:12am

Wish this IPad would play poker ! Damn apple!

simon (ourkidsid) herrick posted on 3 Feb, 8:51am

oh no! how about a cheap (under £200) little netbook for poker? they are fine for 2 tables and 4 if you dont mind a little overlap.

Neil Channing posted on 13 Jan, 2:53am

We had a brilliant idea at Black Belt this week and we spent some time excitedly talking about it in the office...

...We are thinking of holding a quarterly tournament exclusive to BBP players.

The buy-in will be $250 which should be big enough to attract some infrequent big-hitters who we don't always see on the site and to encourage all of our pros to play. That'll be great as we'll put bounties on them.

Seats will be up for grabs in regular satellites held at least twice a week and we'll have free seats in the Orange Belt freerolls.

We'll be looking to give loads of our community members the chance to play by running masses of satellites and giving away loads of seats by having very generous guarantees.

Does everyone think this is a good idea as we're not really sure?

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Gavin Hall posted on 26 Jan, 7:37pm

2p worth has to be on a sunday sometime between 3pm (prob 5pm+) and 7pm (8pm at a push).

If you are planning on more BBP live events then plan it so that these online events fit in the middle of the gap between them.

Perhaps have a BBP Champions Leaderboard involving the Live and Online events - should help to get numbers up.

Great idea and look fwd to it

Martin Malone posted on 26 Jan, 7:40pm

Sounds good to me!

Neil Channing posted on 3 Feb, 2:59am

As a general thing we don't fare too well on Sundays. You would think it would be our busiest and best day of the week but it is usually 3rd or 4th. I think many players are distracted by the stuff that Stars are doing (the mtt pros), while the cash grinders have a day "off" and play mtts while the recreational players do other things. I don't see a lot of players really doing a BBP Sunday schedule, they are more likely to add an iPoker event to their Stars schedule. Maybe we suffer because the network doesn't have synchronised breaks.

We are probably leaning towards doing a quarterly event but starting it on a Thursday. Monday-Thursday is less likely to clash with live events for players and we have stuff going on earlier in the week so we thought Thursday might be the best day.

We'll announce details in a week or so.

chris(SchnauzerSoze) cope posted on 22 Jan, 8:48pm

Well my planned day of playing footy watching city n united in the pub then home just intime for the 200k gtd all went to pot when i suffered a double leg break playing this morning! sat in hospital having op tomorrow on a brighter note that means plenty of time sitting on my arse playing poker and the GF cant really moan about it! Currently morphined up to my eye balls

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chris(SchnauzerSoze) cope posted on 25 Jan, 11:00am

Quick update had the op yesterday and so far everythings looking good, fortunatly the pain has been minimal, they give me one of them self dispence morphine things last night which i have took full advantage of! Tried watching war horse on my laptop last night, whilst clicking away at the morphine.........all i can tell you is it stars a horse ( :

Kevin i really dont want to give up footy but im 35 tomorrow (gonna be celebrated in stckports steppin hill ward D1, the one thats on the news at tbe moment with dodgy nurses, evryones invited) and not sure i have it in me to fully recover and get back to how i played, iv always been a very physicle player myself and the majority of my game has been about tackling and winning the ball back, its not that im worried about getting my leg broke again its the fact we have just had little Henry and cant afford to take ages off work. Ill see how i feel in a few month but this could be the time to finally call it a day and move into management. Doctors want to keep me in for a few more days so looks like im missing all the manchester gukpt and spending my birthday in here! Anyway im going to play the Mullighan tonight sso all feel sorry for me and pass me your chips ( :

Kevin (S0lution) Birt posted on 25 Jan, 11:10am

Maybe it's time to hang up the boots grudgingly then.
Good luck and I will see you in the Mulligan tonight and if you are on my table chances are I will give you some chips at some point.

Neil Channing posted on 3 Feb, 2:45am

Those morphine clickers are the nuts Chris. I hope the pain is starting to go now.